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About Me

Rose Marie Raccioppi, MS, FABI, is an award winning and honored master educator, an innovative and pioneering sound therapist, poet laureate, artist, advocate, activist, holding graduate degrees with honors in education and psychology. Her published book of poetry, "The Wind and the Willow," has been well received nationally and internationally. Pub. Date: June 2008, ISBN-13:9781604744545. She has received organizational, local, state and national honors for her exemplary services to children and families with special educational needs, and for her innovative development in the healing arts. She has been internationally recognized for her inspired poetry and art. She is presently designated, Poet Laureate, Orangetown, New York. Rose Marie is an active blogger, ever ready to share and expand what supports development, potential, well being, creativity and artistry. Rose Marie has been in private practice since 1983 as an educational consultant and sound therapist: http://www.apogeelearning.com
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Friday, October 30, 2009

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

As I step into my garden I greetThe sounding feel of leaves below my feetA quiet presence deep withinCalmed is the daunting dinFrom that mighty oak tree ever strong and tallThis blanket of fallen leaves, gift of FallAmber, red, orange and colors of goldTrees mark time and a story toldLeaves alight and with winds fleeSeason of change this Fall's decreeTorrential rain and south winds yesternightHarken to the rising of morning's new lightThe messengers of storm now silent of soundLeaves, twigs and branches rest upon groundWarming sun yet chilled be the morning airOctober's gift this hour, sky so blue so fair.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Each fallen leaf laden with the night rainTheir wind swept flight put to tameA brimming blanket of leaves upon the groundQuiet they lay, gone their rustling soundHeld still by the towering mighty oak treeRed brown leaves on branch and bough high above meGentle Fall winds entreat each quivering leaf to flyAlight their color array to sweep the gray night sky.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Glowing amber be the sun such luminous arrayAs time beckons the closing of this dayA season of change within this moment nowNature keeping its ever present vowBrilliant gold, vibrant orange, ruby red leaves alightChilling winds and a distant sounding whistle to fill the nightThe street lamp a halo upon my bedroom windowShadows of branch, leaf, quiver and wake belowSounding crickets call to this season's quest and quailThe moving rustle of gathered leaves 'tis Fall we hailDressed in lavish color each tree soon be bareWith leaf shed and bough and branch in Winter's knowing care.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Vincent, yours is a world known to meAnd I grasp at this meaning of BeLight and fields, people and purpose definedAnd I in plea proclaim do not confineBar restraint and perception veiledVincent your gift of knowing has prevailedWith awe and sighs anew your art so perceivedAnd blessed for the inexplicable conceived.

Vincent Van Gogh perceived the vibrating energy of light and life itself. He captured the quivering, pulsing fields that embraced his vision. All was moving, all was dimension, all was effect. I experienced the deepest of pleasure in being present with Van Gogh's original works on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.

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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Quell not these passion aflame afireThe yearnings of this soul's desire Know I this moment in living needCreation and Being my heart to heedBrush, paint, inner whispers heardAnd cast upon paper Spirit's Word.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

This palette filled with careThis paper stark and white This easel touched by lightThis quest a silent wordThis heart a calling heardBrush and paint in strokes boldForm emergent to take hold This dance of fireTango, passion and desirePaint and brush yield and captureStrokes of color, strokes of rapture.Rose Marie Raccioppi

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Fear and suppression no longer take holdSo be the glory of spirit and soulLife and valor fill chambers of heartFrom which anger and hurt do departGod's power and reign within abidePowerless be the taunter, the one to chideMind to fathom trove and treasureFulfillment and abundance in whole measure The gift of knowing to mark each rising day Beauty, grace and truth, blessed be The Way.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

To these waters I proclaimProtection in the Creator's nameRain, lake, stream and seaUpon land, mountain and all that beCascading, rippling waves of timeWaters roiling, majestic, sublimeCarried with ebb and flowOcean tides now high now lowLofty heights of turbulent splendorTo water's lure I willingly surrenderAnd heard be the cresting pleaRevere the gifts of waters, ocean and sea.

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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Within his fingers the structure, the melody cast divineSpontaneous, miraculous, with perseverance sublimeIn solitude, weeping, pacing, he held to the music’s pleaWithin his inner chambers conceived he the music to beVariant, fluid, reverie, revelation’s questAnd we the benefactors of his behestThe sounding outcry of a tormented heart be foundIn Chopin’s Scherzo, Etude, resolve expressively profoundPassion, devotion, unrequited love, of sorrow, joy, he to tellAnd these the Preludes, Ballades, Mazurkas, we know so very wellThe embrace of sensibilities and the sounding of creation’s callChopin, his Presence, his music, this moment, in celebration all.

"Matthew Cameron has, in the words of music writer Michel Le Naour, distinguished himself as a figure of "profound musical consciousness", and as one of the major pianistic talents of his generation. His playing has been called "passionate and poetic" and "masterful" by critics, and Cyprien Katsaris lauded his transcriptions and compositions for piano as "works of genius."

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Bequeath Your PresenceWithin this soullove’s call though silentresounds with longingWithin this heartlove’s call though silentechoes a lamentWithin this stillnessthe resounding of what once wasWithin the emptinessthe fullness of despairAre these the sensibilitiesabsent of God’s careRavage notthis body and spiritRavage notthis faith and trustBequeath Your PresenceCancer no more.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Upon her face the light I seeMy heart beckons a soulful pleaHer music I hear and known be my heartFrom this embracing moment I shan't departIn silent knowing I vow she be mineAnd in this moment is defined all time.Rose Marie Raccioppi